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Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2), WoS AHCI. Published by Manchester University Press.
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ISSN 2054-9318Verify ISSN ↗2054-9326Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 141 / 175 | 19th | Q4 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 271 / 296 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–2025 (also 2012, 2002–2006, 1999, 1990, 1971–1972, 1946–1948), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is Q4 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 141 of 175) and Q4 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 271 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 19th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.128, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 8.
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is published by Manchester University Press. Its print ISSN is 2054-9318 and its online ISSN is 2054-9326.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 0.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #88 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library published 11 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 19. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 52 research articles (2021–2024), authors are most often from United Kingdom (59.6%), United States (8.7%) and France (5.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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